Politics

The apex students' body said the Centre should also stand by the assurances given by its interlocutor and present Nagaland Governor R N Ravi in 2015.

The political crisis in Rajasthan Congress ended on Monday after a meeting of Pilot with Gandhi and later the MLAs met top Congress leaders and were assured that their grievances would be redressed in a time-bound manner.

Congress' Randeep Surjewala alleged that the government unilaterally acquired power to appoint state environmental impact assessment authorities thereby killing cooperative federalism.

Calling Sachin Pilot 'nikamma and nakaara', Ashok Gehlot had commented that his deputy had done nothing for Rajasthan, and all he did was to become a 'good looking, English-speaking neta'.

Bihar goes to polls in winter to elect members of its legislative assembly and the ruling combine finds its popularity at an all-time low. Stoking the fire of Bihari identity and pride at this time certainly is an apposite political idea.

He claimed the 'unilateral' move by the Central government to have a larger say on education policy has serious repercussions on the idea of federalism, which is the mainstay of the Indian union.

Earlier this year, Chief Minister Pramod Sawant had announced that the state government and the GMR Goa International Airport Limited had agreed to reduce the length of the runway to 3.5 km from 3.75 km.

A division bench issued notice to the Accountant General seeking details on the money spent on the capital development. It posted the matter for further hearing to August 14.

Sinha, who has an MTech degree, is well-versed in political and social engineering. But when he landed in the national capital a week ago, few would have imagined that he was going to get such an important responsibility.

Prakash Javadekar wrote a letter in response to the objections to the draft EIA raised on various occasions by Jairam Ramesh, a former environment minister.

The single bench had issued notices to the speaker and secretary of the assembly and the six MLAs on July 30 and directed them to submit replies on August 11.

So far, Shiv Sena has maintained that it is a historic day and a golden moment as the dreams and aspirations of the Hindus have been fulfilled.

Rajasthan Assembly Speaker CP Joshi however failed to get any interim relief on his plea alleging that the high court cannot interdict the disqualification proceedings undertaken by him under 10th schedule of the Constitution.

Sanjay Raut said the government must explain why the region has been in a perpetual lockdown, the internet services remain blocked and so many leaders are still in detention.

After meeting Governor V P Singh Badnore, Congress leader Bajwa said they had demanded probe by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and the Enforcement Directorate (ED) into the alleged illegal liquor trade in the state.

The Congress has nine Muslim MLAs, however, it is not clear how many of them are at the Jaisalmer hotel.